Well I am back from my weekend. Lets just say it has been exciting. First off here is how Saturday went.
*Wake up
*Meet brother in-law to go to Cabelas
*Get to Cabelas and start grabbing everything I need to buy and making the gun the last item.
*Fill out paper work for gun only to find out that the address on paper work MUST be the same as on my license. (I moved this February)
*License is expired anyway and is in need of renewal. I am told if I go to the DMV and get it taken care of then I can get the gun once I got my yellow paper.
*We buy scope and other small items and have sister in law find an open DMV
*We find a DMV that is actually open on a Saturday and get the license renewal/update taken care of.
*Come all the way back to Cabelas and purchase gun
*Have lunch
*Go and pick up step son with brother in-law from the MN Zoo where he is volunteering at, which we were running late for.

Finally after all of Saturdays adventures, Sunday came and we went to his 40 acres of land 3 hours north of the cities. So here are the pics and descriptions to go with....

Here she is in all of her glorious splendor. The Remington 700 SPS Stainless Steel with the Nikon Monarch 3-12X42 BDC. A couple nice things I didn't expect with this specific gun was that the bolt is jeweled and the gun actually uses a magazine instead of that dumb springy thingy.


Here the ammo used. They were Winchester Power Point 150 Grain, Remington Core-Lokt 180 Grain (they were out of 150 and 165), and Federal Fusion 150 Grain.


Here is the target. This was only at about 22 Yards.


We eventually got me in one of the deer stands about 20 feet in a tree and hung this target from a tree on the other side of a field about 100 Yards out. At first I was missing the target completely and once I brought the scope in 6 Inches I ended up with 2 shots that were maybe 2 inches from the bullseye and maybe 1-1 1/2" apart. I also played with the zoom on the scope and had it set to 8 which helped greatly. So for now we are VERY impressed with the Cabela guy's bore sighting along with the accuracy, function and softness of recoil with this gun. But lets not forget this AWESOME scope too.

We couldn't have my step sons sniper uncle do the scope stuff because of his availability but it seems we may be sitting pretty good right now. Hope you all enjoy the pics. I had a lot of fun this weekend getting my new gun and shooting. Im looking forward to hopefully getting a deer with it this year. With what we have seen with the ammo im thinking im pretty safe with either of them. However if I had to lean towards one or two of them I would say probably the Remington and the Federal would be my choices. If I have a chance to get out and do more shooting I will have to see if I can zone in on one. My brother in-law wants to build a shooting bench and set up a kind of "range" to shoot strait shots down so we will see where we go from here.